Treading similar ground to his previous film 'Repulsion' Polanski himself plays the title character this time. He plays the new tenant of a gothic Parisian apartment block whose other tenants are neurotically obssessed with keeping the noise levels down. Combined with his own obsession with the suicide of the previous female tenant of his room this sends the Polanski character into something akin to madness which includes disturbing visions and scenarios along with a tendency to cross-dress and 'play' the previous tenant. It's a moody piece, eccentric rather than truly disturbing but still well worth a look.